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  • Talia Lugacy

    Assistant Professor of Screen Studies

    Email
    lugacyt@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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    Talia Lugacy

    Profile

    Talia Lugacy is a narrative independent director, writer and actor. Her current feature film THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY is being released by Warner Media HBO and won the Audience Award at San Francisco Indie Fest, Woods Hole FF, Indie Street, and won Best Narrative Feature at Atlanta Underground, as well as the NYWIFT award for Best Female Director at its NYC premiere, the Urbanworld Film Festival. The film is a hybrid narrative about combat trauma and is a collaboration with veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars. Her previous feature Descent premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival prior to a theatrical release, starred Rosario Dawson and was a New York Times Critics Pick.

    Future Courses

    [Directing]: Narrative
    LSCR 3151, Spring 2026

    [Senior Seminar]
    LSCR 4900, Spring 2026

    Character and Craft
    LSCR 3170, Fall 2025

    Independent Senior Project
    LSCR 4990, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    LSCR 3950, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    LCST 3950, Spring 2026, Summer 2025

    Screen Foundations
    LSCR 2101, Fall 2025

    The Writer's Room
    LSCR 3202, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Dir. Narrative: Feature Prod.
    LCST 3150, Spring 2025

    Independent Senior Project
    LCST 4990, Spring 2025

    Independent Study
    LCST 3950, Spring 2025

    Screen Writing
    LCST 3170, Spring 2025

    Senior Seminar: Screen
    LCST 4900, Spring 2025

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